James A. Harnish is the author of numerous books and Bible studies including Finding Your Bearings: How Words That Guided Jesus through Crisis Can Guide Us (2021), Easter Earthquake: How Resurrection Shakes Our World (2017), and A Disciple’s Path (2012). He retired after forty-three years of pastoral ministry in the Florida Conference of The United Methodist Church. He and his wife, Martha, live in Longwood, Florida.